Abandoned Transition With Prospect Park
On August 2011, Prospect Park announced that it was shopping for a cable network to air All My Children. On August 16, 2011 actor Walt Willey announced on WGN that the whole cast of All My Children had received their contract offer from Prospect Park, but came short on giving the details about it. Prospect Park officially began negotiations with the actors of All My Children on September 15, 2011. During a September 18, 2011 appearance on CBS News Sunday Morning, lead actress Susan Lucci revealed that she had not decided yet about her future with the show after its conclusion on ABC. On September 19, 2011, Cameron Mathison and Lindsay Hartley became the only actors that had agreed to continue the show with Prospect Park.
Prospect Park initially intended for All My Children to begin its run on the internet on September 26, 2011, but has since revealed that the transition could be delayed until 2012 because it had to negotiated a new contract with the union representing the actors of All My Children. On September 27, 2011, Prospect Park announced that All My Children along with its sister soap One Life to Live would be relaunched in January 2012 on the company's new internet channel, The Online Network. But on November 10, 2011, several sources reported that Prospect Park had indefinitely suspended its plans to relaunch All My Children and that the company would concentrate solely on One Life to Live. Reasons given for this decision were lack of funding coupled with Prospect Park not being able to sign enough cast members from All My Children.
On November 23, 2011, Prospect Park confirmed that it officially suspended its project, not only to continue All My Children, but also One Life to Live. Reasons given by Prospect Park for this decision include funding problems and poor negotiations with the unions representing the cast of both soaps. WGA and AFTRA, which respectively represent the writer and the actors, have both expressed disappointment over Prospect Park's announcement.
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